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NBC Loots Apple’s Xcode Icon For Their Reality Show Website
NBC is working on a new reality television show called Home Transformers. To find candidates for the TV show, they created a website called hometransformers.tv. On that website, it appears that they were using an icon that was designed by Apple for Xcode, the software used for designing iPod, iPad, iPhone, and Mac apps. After face-palming themselves, they took the image down after TheNextWeb.com noticed it.
Categories Apple Inc., Apple Xcode, Home Transformers, NBC
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Hulu Planning To Raise Additional Funding For Expansion Into Original Programming
Online TV service Hulu.com, the company that is owned by ABC, NBC, and Fox is intensifying their competition against Nextflix and they are planning to raise money to expand into more original programming. Hulu is releasing their first scripted show “Battleground” on February 14th and is weighing an option to raise cash this year according to chief content officer Andy Forssell.
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Categories Andy Forssell, Hulu, NBC, News Corp, News Corporation, The Walt Disney Company
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Hulu Makes $420 Million In 2011 Revenues
Hulu.com, the joint venture video streaming company of NBCUniversal, Fox Entertainment Group, and Disney, has reported their 2011 numbers and they are BIG! Hulu has grown 60% from 2010 to $420 million in revenues despite the slow economy, which directly affects the advertising market. Hulu’s ad business grew aggressively and Hulu Plus helped their revenues shoot up from between $200-$300 million in 2010.
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Categories Hulu, NBC, News Corp, News Corporation, The Walt Disney Company
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This Year’s Super Bowl Can Be Streamed On The Internet and Mobile Devices
The Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and NBC’s wild-card playoff games will be streamed on the Internet and on mobile devices for the first time announced the NFL yesterday. The games can be streamed online on NBCSports.com and NFL.com through SNF Extra, which has an HD broadcast, DVR-style controls, additional camera angles, highlights, live stats, and other interactive features.
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Categories National Football League, NBC, NFL, Rick Cordella, Verizon Wireless
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Amazon Signs Another Video Deal, This Time with NBC
Amazon now has deals with CBS and NBC for streaming video content. With last week’s deal with CBS and this week’s deal with NBC, Amazon now offers 7,000 tv programs and 2,000 films. Mashable reports that Amazon also has a stake in UK internet-tv platform YouView.
Categories Amazon, CBS, NBC, YouView
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Facebook and NBC Partner To Host Republican Presidential Debate
Facebook and NBC have made a partnership to broadcast the U.S. GOP presidential debate before the primary next year. The debate will air as part of a special broadcast on NBC’s Meet the Press. The broadcast will be moderated by David Gregory. This will also be streamed on Facebook.
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Categories David Gregory, Facebook, Joel Kaplan, NBC
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Hulu Close To Extending Content Deal
Hulu is currently in negotiations to extend the right to stream TV programs on their website provided by NBC, Fox, and ABC. This would be an extension to a deal that News Corp., Disney, and NBCUniversal signed two years ago.
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Categories ABC, FOX, Hulu, Jason Kilar, NBC, News Corp, News Corporation, The Walt Disney Company
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NBC Employee Fired For Posting 1994 Clip Of Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric Asking What The Internet Is [VIDEO]
An employee over at NBC was fired for posting a video clip from The Today Show archives with Bryant Gumble and Katie Couric discussing what the Internet actually is. It is funny to see Gumbel talk about how weird e-mail addresses are. Check out the video above.
Categories Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric, NBC
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Comcast Allowed To Acquire NBC, But Not Control Hulu
The federal government is allowing Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) to merge with NBC, but there are limitations. Comcast will not be allowed to sabotage Hulu.com when buying NBC. Comcast’s acquisition of NBC was worth about $30 billion. Media industry executives were interested to see how Comcast would influence Hulu.com. NBC Universal helped create Hulu and owns about 30% of the website.
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Categories Comcast, Comcast Corporation, Hulu, NBC, NBC Universal
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FCC To Allow Comcast-NBC Merger If Show Exclusivity Stops On Hulu
In December 2009 Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) made a deal to acquire NBC from General Electric. This deal is facing scrutiny from the government. The FCC said that one of the proposed conditions if they allow the deal to take place is that NBC would no longer have the exclusive rights to their shows on the Internet. This means that Hulu would not be the only web video service that has the rights to stream NBC shows. The three owners in Hulu are NBC, ABC, and FOX. [AllThingsD]
Categories ABC, Comcast, Comcast Corporation, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, FOX, GE, General Electric, General Electric Co, Hulu, NBC
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